News: IAA lecture programme continues alternate Wednesdays from September - an excellent programme of lectures- Queens University Belfast - Bell Lecture Theatre. Also keep an eye out for the Summer Events

Roman, I some how missed this thread until now. That's a very impressive presentation!. I never knew you kept weather records for so long. Excellent work!. Data like that will come in handy to researchers in the future. Keep up the great work. What about t-storms, did you get much of those during that period?

T-storms are usual during Jun-Aug and probable during Apr-May & Sep. However there can be some exceptions. How many? Let me place here some statistics: (the number of days, not single t-storms!)2006: 182007: 272008: 17 (Mar-1, Apr-1, May-5, Jun-3, Jul-4, Aug-2, Sep-0, Oct-1) The last t-storm of Oct.06 was a surprise for me because it was already mid-autumn (t-storms less probable) and no t-storms for 40 days before that.

Tyler, I had many unsucessfull attempts before 2006.......with a few days, week, even month but no more But then I decided to do minimum observations but constantly, and it is the most important and hard part - to have no single day of unrecorded weather. It worth to try doing it - it is hard to start but it brings awesome results in a few years.